Lawrence Zelic Freedman

Background

Freedman, Lawrence Zelic was born on September 4, 1919 in Gardner, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Bessie (Lyon) Freedman.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Tufts University, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Tufts University, 1944.

Career

Intern, New York City Hospital, 1944; resident in psychiatry, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1946-1949; faculty member, Yale Law and Medical Schools, New Haven, Connecticut, 1946-1960; fellow in psychiatry, Yale Medical School, 1946; research professor in psychiatry, University of Chicago Medical School, 1961-1989; professor emeritus, University of Chicago Medical School, since 1989; Chairman of the Board adult education, University of Chicago, 1966. Founder, chairman Yale Study Unit in Psychiatry and Law, 1953-1960. Co-founder (with Harold D. Lasswell), chairman Institute Social and Behavioral Pathology, since 1970.

Yale University representative to 1st World Congress on Psychiatry, International Society of Criminology, Sorbonne. Fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1959-1961, visiting scholar, 1967-1968. Fellow Adlai Stevenson Institute International Affairs, 1972.

Assistant étranger U. Paris Salpetriere Hospital, 1950. Member of faculty U. Cambridge, England, 1958. Visiting professor U. Tel Aviv, 1973.

Chairman research section Pan-American Congress for Psychoanalysis, 1964, research section project on violence Adlai Stevenson Institute International Affairs, University of Chicago, 1950-1960. Visiting lecturer Yale Child Study Center, 1972. Permanent delegate United Nations Economics and Social Council, 1949.

Consultant Division Social Defense, United Nations, 1950, American Law Institute communications of Model Penal Code, 1952-1962. Senior consultant psychiatrist Chemical Dependency, Behavioral Research and Action in Social Sciences Foundation, 1974-1976.

Achievements

• Lawrence Zelic Freedman has been listed as a notable Scientist, psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • (By Reason of Insanity: Essays on Psychiatry and the Law ) Author: Lawrence Zelic Freedman May-1983

Membership

President center for study of Russian-American Democratic Institutions, since 1991. Served withMed. Svc. Corps., United States Navy, 1942-1946. Fellow American Orthopsychiatry Association (life), Illinois Psychiatric Association, Royal College Anthropology of Great Britain and Ireland, World Academy Arts and Sciences.

Member Chicago Academy Sciences (trustee), American Psychiatric Association (life, chairman Legal Aspects Psychiatry Committee 1958), American Medical Association (chairman Legal Aspects Community Mental Health 1958), Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (Executive Committee), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. M C.

Connections

Children: Bart J., Matthew E., Joshua E., Johanna J., Thomas L.

Father:

Samuel Freedman

Mother:

Bessie (Lyon) Freedman

child:

Thomas L. Freedman

child:

Bart J. Freedman

child:

Matthew E. Freedman

child:

Joshua E. Freedman

child:

Johanna J. Freedman